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Time to study science in your homeschool? Are you studying botany? Do you want to take a turn down a delight driven path? Here is a great experiment to add to your homeschooling week!
Take nature walks! Create nature journals! Have a great time with nature. This time of year there so many wonderful ways to bring the outside in to a science experiment.
This is also a fun experiment for little ones and super wigglers! Hands on science can keep the attention of ADHD prone kids much longer than 4 pages of reading. I have even found that the 4 pages reading are often sought out after the experiment because of high interest.
This is super simple to do with your children to create a great visual representation of your fungi and spores.
- Find a mushroom that has a flat head. Remove stem.
- Careful when you pick it and carry it back home to not shake it too much.
- Place the head on construction paper. Light colored mushrooms will go on dark construction paper. Dark colored mushrooms will go on light colored construction paper.
- Let it rest over night in a quiet place, like a high garage shelf.
- The next day the mushroom will have lost quite a bit of water and the spores will have fallen out to the paper.
Here are a more links to help with your lesson on fungi:
Practical Pages did a fun post on Mushrooms.
The Homeschool Den created their own Mushroom Playhouses!
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Grow Your Own Mushrooms |
Apologia has graciously sponsored this post. Learning science and experimenting with the world around us is exactly what their textbooks and journals encourage! Below are the Apologia books for elementary children that will assist you with learning about fungi and botany.
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Exploring Creation with Botany Junior Notebooking JournalBy Apologia Educational Ministries<!– Exploring Creation with Botany. 221 non-reproducible pages plus 57-page full-color section. Spiral bound, softcover. |
